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This is the first time a major party has chosen a woman to run for the post.

Veteran politician Park Geun-Hye -- whose mother was killed by a
pro-North Korean agent -- secured a landslide 84 percent of the vote to easily
see off four male challengers at the primary of the conservative New Frontier
Party.

Opinion polls show her as current favourite to win the presidency
in the December 19 vote.

Park, now 60, had narrowly lost out to Lee Myung-Bak in the
party's 2007 primary. Lee went on to become president but the country's leaders
are restricted to a single five-year term.

Beaming broadly, Park accepted a bouquet of flowers from party
leaders and promised to secure the presidency and create a country "full of
dreams and hope".

She reiterated a commitment to "economic democratisation", in a
country with a growing wealth gap and high youth unemployment, and said she
would work to improve welfare schemes and create jobs.

Park promised to eradicate corruption, which has tarnished Lee's
administration, and safeguard the nation against external threats.

"I, Park Geun-Hye, will not tolerate any actions that threaten
our people or damage our sovereignty," she said in an acceptance speech.

She cited North Korea's "provocations and nuclear threats" as
well as territorial disputes with other countries, an apparent reference to the
row with Japan over ownership of islands in the Sea of Japan (East Sea).

Park is the daughter of Park Chung-Hee, who seized power in a
coup in 1961 and was assassinated by his spy chief in 1979.

He won wide respect for transforming the poor war-ravaged nation
into an economic juggernaut, but is also reviled in some quarters for his human
rights abuses.

Park Geun-Hye also lost her mother to a gunman, a pro-North
Korean agent who shot the first lady in 1974 while aiming for the president.

An opinion survey in Monday's JoongAng Ilbo newspaper gave her
38.8 percent support, followed by 27.1 percent for software mogul Ahn Cheol-Soo,
an independent who has not officially declared his candidacy.

Moon Jae-In, the likely candidate of the left-leaning main
opposition Democratic United Party, was third at 8.6 percent. The party will
select its candidate next month.

However, the survey showed Park leading Ahn only narrowly in a
two-way race.